Improvement in collecting waste spirits from breweries and bars



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' ARTHUR Meetings; AND

ILLI M MCCORMICK, 0F PHI ADE PHIA, PENN YLVANIA.

Letterslat ent No. 100,428, dated March 1, 1870.

'mr'novcmnnw m COLLECTING- WASTE SPIRITS PROM snnwnnms AND BARS.

p The Schedule referred to :in' these Letters Patent and making-part of the same We, ARTHUR MAemNrs and WILLIAM McCon- MICK, of the city ofPhiladelphia, in' the State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered a certain Process for Utilizing the \Vaste spirituous Fluids of Breweriesand Drinking-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that in breweries of beer and ale, large amounts of thefermei ting and fermented malt liquors are ;wasted or lost in filling,'and in the overflowing ot'thecontaining vessels, and in cleansing the same for subsequent use, and that a like waste or loss occurs in drinking-bars from the over-filling and the Jupsetting of the drinking vessels, and fi'om the drain-- ings and washings of the same. l

The object of our invention or discovery is to utilize this waste by recovering from it, at small cost, all the spiritons or alcoholic properties which have hitherto gone with it to waste or loss.

We take the accumulated waste liquors of breweries andbars; and gradually heat and pass them through the improved apparatus for which Letters Patent-,- n'umbered 87,7 92, and dated the 16th day of March, 1869, were granted to E. 1 8: T. D. Prentiss, and thus separate the alcoholic spirits from the liquor has beemmiXedatthc' breweries and bars, so as to recover the said alcohol or spirits in a suificiently pure condition to be used in the arts, and consequently, in so far, we'add to the products of value.

We do notdesire to claim any particular apparatus for our purpose of recovering the spirituous orfuseful matter from the really useless portion of the said manner described in the specification,-fully answers our purpose; but I q That we claim as new and of our invention or discovery, is confined to the following a Claim.

Utilizing. the waste spirituous fluids of breweries and drinking-bars,substantially as described herein.

ARTHUR MAGINNLS. WM. MCCORMICK. Witnesses:

BENJ. Momsos, WM. H. MORISON.

water andthe dirt or impuritieswith which the waste waste,'as the apparatus referred to,wlien used in the 

